Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins

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Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins was an English biochemist and Nobel laureate renowned for discovering essential nutrients later known as vitamins and for pioneering the field of nutritional biochemistry.

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instanceOf Nobel laureate
biochemist
human
awardReceived Copley Medal
Knight Bachelor
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Royal Medal
coRecipientWith Christiaan Eijkman
countryOfCitizenship England
United Kingdom
dateOfBirth 1861-06-20
dateOfDeath 1947-05-16
discovered essential amino acid tryptophan
educatedAt King’s College London
surface form: Guy's Hospital Medical School

University of London
employer Cambridge University
surface form: University of Cambridge
familyName Hopkins
fieldOfWork biochemistry
nutritional biochemistry
physiological chemistry
founded Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge
surface form: School of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge
givenName Frederick
honorificPrefix Sir
knownFor discovery of essential dietary factors later called vitamins
isolation of tryptophan
pioneering nutritional biochemistry
work on accessory food factors
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Order of Merit
Royal Society
middleName Gowland
nobelPrizeCategory Physiology or Medicine
nobelPrizeMotivation for the discovery of vitamins stimulating growth
nobelPrizeYear 1929
notableStudent Albert Szent-Györgyi
Joseph Needham
occupation biochemist
university teacher
placeOfBirth Eastbourne
England
West Sussex
surface form: Sussex
placeOfDeath Cambridge, England
surface form: Cambridge

Cambridgeshire, England
surface form: Cambridgeshire

England
positionHeld president of the Royal Society
professor of biochemistry
sexOrGender male
studied relationship between diet and growth
vitamins
workLocation Cambridge, England
surface form: Cambridge

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Emmanuel College, Cambridge alumnus Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge hasGraveOf Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
essential amino acid tryptophan wasFirstIsolatedBy Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
subject surface form: tryptophan
this entity surface form: Frederick Hopkins
Christiaan Eijkman sharesAwardWith Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Eijkman sharesAwardWith Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
subject surface form: Christiaan Eijkman
Dorothy Moyle Needham hasAcademicAdvisor Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
this entity surface form: Frederick Gowland Hopkins